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Steve Jobs ‘was in end-stage liver disease’ - Times Online
Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, has an “excellent prognosis” after receiving a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital, the doctor in charge has confirmed

Diane Cross - Journalism.co.uk
Regular contributor to: BBC World Service (World Agenda/marketing publications - sub, proof reader, copywriter, news); BBC World Service Trust (web copy, writing, editing); Readers

Apple boss Steve Jobs back at work - PC Advisor
CNBC’s Jim Goldman said the Mac guru reported for duty at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters on Monday. Goldman said he met a wall of silence when asking the company’s PR machine about

Key dates in health saga of Apple’s Jobs - The Guardian
June 30 (Reuters) - Apple Inc Co-founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs is back at work, returning from a near six-month medical leave after receiving a liver transplant. [ID

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Tutorial: Simple upgrades for your laptop - PC Advisor
The low price of storage means it’s feasible for most laptop owners to expand the capacity of their machines. But if you’re going to the bother of installing a new hard drive, why

ANALYSIS-World leaders seek new Iran strategy - Reuters AlertNet
BRUSSELS, June 26 (Reuters) - World leaders face pressure to find a new policy for dealing with Iran following its disputed presidential election and crackdown on protesters, but

US STOCKS-Wall St slips on oil, saving rate; Nasdaq inches up - The Guardian
NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - The Dow and the S&P 500 fell on Friday as a jump in the savings rate raised worries the economic recovery will not make much headway if consumers stay

Brown ready for Owen fight - SkySports
It was not a throwaway comment, it is a genuine interest, and as a free transfer that would be an interesting prospect for a number of clubs. Phil Brown on Michael Owen. Phil Brown

Michael Jackson’s lonely life in reverse - Times Online
The most ordinary years in the life of Michael Jackson were his first half dozen in the rough industrial town of Gary, Indiana. Then, like Tibetan monks lighting on a young Dalai

Iran election: protesters ‘worthy of execution’ says cleric - Daily Telegraph
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami delivers the weekly Friday prayer sermon at Tehran University. Photo: AFP Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a member of the clerical leadership, used the platform of

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WD tera-fies home storage buyers - Channel Register
WD is busily upgrading MyBook editions - hot on the heels of the 4TB Studio Edition II comes the World Edition II with doubled capacity of 4TB, courtesy of two 2TB drives, and

Katie Price Twitters Her Twat To Tiny Peter Andre - Anorak
More than 196,000 fans have signed up to read Price’s Twitter comments. Who knew there were so many journalists – but that’s blogging for you. And every blog needs an opinion

Microsoft announces Windows 7 pricing, details pre-order promotions - HEXUS.net
In comparison, the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade is $10 cheaper than Windows Vista. Despite many hoping that Microsoft would slash pricing in response to the global economic

Capturing the beat of 1950s Paris - BBC News
Writers and artists have been gathering in Paris to celebrate the 50th anniversary of William Burroughs’s book Naked Lunch. The book was written in the Beat Hotel - a hangout for

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LaCie rolls into array business - Channel Register
LaCie looks set to enter the disk drive array business through an OEM deal with Xyratex . In the storage world Paris-based LaCie is known for stylish external drives for Windows

BBC Blog Network - BBC
Battle of the smartphones 7:07pm on 17 Jun 2009 The Palm Pre looks very nice too. That said I’m more than happy with my G1. An on screen keyboard is all very well and the on screen

Canonical certs Ubuntu on ProLiants - Channel Register
Canonical, the commercial organization behind the Ubuntu variant of the Debian distribution of Linux, said today that it has certified its Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition to run on all

Canucks buy 300 teraflops Blue iDataPlex super - The Register
The University of Toronto’s SciNet consortium, which provides supercomputing oomph for colleges, universities, and research hospitals across Canada, will today announce that it has

LG to produce monitor with virtualization technology - Reuters UK
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - LG Electronics will start selling this month flatscreen monitors that can function as virtual computers, saving costs by allowing multiple users to run

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Diane Cross - Journalism.co.uk
Regular contributor to: BBC World Service (World Agenda/marketing publications - sub, proof reader, copywriter, news); BBC World Service Trust (web copy, writing, editing); Readers

Apple fixes months-old Java bug - ZDNet UK
Apple has issued a patch for Mac OS X that fixes a serious Java security flaw publicly disclosed six months ago, following criticism from security researchers. The vulnerability

Your guide to the BBC News Pop-up Player - BBC News
The BBC News (pop-up) Player is a Watch or Listen icon which launches a player in a separate internet window and requires Real Player or Window Media Player to work. Please bear in

Kroll Ontrack intros data recovery solution for Apple Xsan - MacWorld UK
Kroll Ontrack, a provider of data management solutions, has announced the ability to recover data from an Apple Xsan 2 server that has encountered volume corruption, using newly

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